Test 2 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox: Brer Rabbit tricks B…

lowkey, that fire trick was genius, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fire trick · What happens: be · To what, where: genius

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 588 «Uncle Remus, The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox: Brer Rabbit tricks Brer Fox to his death and escapes Miss Fox» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 genius	punct
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 trick	det
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trick	compound
5	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 genius	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 genius	cop
7	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lowkey	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lowkey	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	1 lowkey	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 lowkey	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that fire trick	genius					tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

for real, he played Fox for the fire and then ran off laughing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	2 real	case
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 played	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 played	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 played	nsubj
5	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 played	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 fire	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 played	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ran	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 ran	advmod
12	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 played	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 ran	compound:prt
14	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 ran	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	he	Fox		for real; for the fire	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent fox=Theme for real=Eventuality
2	run off	past	he not said here		then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	laugh	gerund	he not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

for real, Rabbit tricked Fox into the fire and the cow and got clean away

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	2 real	case
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Rabbit	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 real	punct
4	Rabbit	Rabbit	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tricked	nsubj
5	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tricked	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 fire	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tricked	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cow	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cow	det
12	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fire	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 got	cc
14	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tricked	conj
15	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 got	xcomp
16	away	away	ADV	_	14 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	real Rabbit	Fox				into the fire and the cow result	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent fox=Patient into fire=Result
2	get away	past	real Rabbit not said here					away, clean property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

nah, Fox played him for the cow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 played	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	Fox	Fox	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 played	nsubj
4	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 played	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 cow	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cow	det
8	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 played	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	Fox	him = he				for the cow	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent he=Theme for cow=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

for real, he played Fox for the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	2 real	case
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 played	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 played	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 played	nsubj
5	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 played	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 fire	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 played	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	he	Fox				for real; for the fire	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent fox=Theme for real=Eventuality

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